And
it is He who spread out the earth and He made therein anchors (mountains) and rivers
and from all plant’s
produce He made therein two spouses (male and female)…
The Glorious Quran:
chapter 13, verse 3 (622 AD)
An image of the female (left) and male (right) flowers of the plant Jatropha integerrima, a common garden shrub in the Caribbean.
Christian Konrad Sprengel (1793)
who described plant sexuality as the
"revealed secret of nature" was the first to popularize the idea that plants have male and female flowers.